Begging in late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 640

It is said that the Chongzhen Emperor extorted so violently that people could not survive. In the most year of the Chongzhen Dynasty, the national tax revenue was only about 2000 million taels of silver.However, after a brutal war of conquest, with a greatly reduced population, the annual tax of 6000 million taels could be maintained during the Shunzhi period of the Qing Dynasty, and the peasants could live on without large-scale rebellions. Keep the stock of silver in the treasury to [-] million taels, so where does the silver go?
It is true that the land area of ​​the Manchu Qing Dynasty was much larger than that of Chongzhen. However, Mongolia, Tibet and many other areas not only could not collect taxes, but had to be rewarded. The commerce of the Qing Dynasty was more developed than that of the Ming Dynasty, which made up for a large part of the national treasury. The Qing Dynasty was also an agricultural country, and the focus of taxation was always on the land tax. The key large sum of taxation came from the group of people in front of them. The big aristocratic families who had accumulated more than 200 years were slaughtered in large numbers, and a large number of annexed lands were destroyed. Spit it out, and in the Qing Dynasty, Han officials no longer had such privileges, and the taxes hidden by them were also collected and scraped away by Jiannu, and this was the prosperous age of Kang and Qian.

Today, according to the words of the political teacher, the group of people who occupy the most means of production in society do not pay a penny of tax, but sternly retreat the burden to the bottom people who occupy the least amount of social production means but have the largest number. Strange!
Now that the corrupt Song Qingshu can't be cured for a while, he doesn't have that much power to shake the entire Jiangnan gentry, and can't ban their privileges, so according to the national law, it is understandable to spit out the part you should pay to the national treasury to support the country first, right?
But this also hit the sensitive nerves of many people present. The imperial envoy Yang Tingshu who just jumped out to bite people sneered and flicked his sleeves at Song Qingshu.

"The Marquis of Jingnan is extremely absurd. There are countless acres of land in the world. The Marquis of Jingnan wants to gather some Susukida on the edge of the land and want to solve the urgent needs of the court. It is simply a fantasy, ridiculous!"

"is it?"

There was a playful smile on his face, Song Qingshu was full of smiles, but he looked back at him and talked about something else, and when Yang Tingshu and others were confused, he said with confidence: "Yang Yushi is from a family of officials and eunuchs, and he is from a scholarly family. It is enviable! I heard that Yang Yushi's elder brother is the magistrate of Lingbi County, his nephew is an official in the Ministry of Industry, his cousin is the magistrate of Dangyang, and his uncle is the magistrate of Hongsi. After doing the math, there are nine officials in the court. ! Tsk tsk."

"What does the Marquis of Jingnan mean?"

Suddenly feeling uneasy, Yang Tingshu asked sternly, but saw Song Qingshu shaking his head and counting with his fingers.

"The seventh rank can exempt [-] mu, and the fifth rank is five mu. That's not right. According to the ancestral system, Yang Yushi's family can have a total of [-] mu of land tax. However, Yang Yushi's tax this autumn is [-] mu of land. It's a fight for the price!"

In an instant, his face turned the color of a purple eggplant, and Yang Tingshu jumped up growling like a cat whose tail had been stepped on.

"It's nonsense! My family has been poor for generations, how come there are so many fields?"

"Tsk tsk, Yang's Changzhou family has more than two thousand servants in his family. People in Haoqiao call Yang Bancheng. The [-] mu of land in his family can support so many servants. Song admires you so much! Such a high yield, please Master Yang must Introduce one or two to the household department! The imperial court will not be so short of money!"

"Yes, there is more! Comparing the land books of Zhang Juzheng and Zhang Xiang in the Wanli period, Haoqiao and Caijing have a total of 1 mu of land, [-] mu of Yang Yushi's family, and [-] mu of Zhao Zhaomo's family. , Mr. Li’s family has [-] acres, and the remaining tax-paid is less than [-] acres. I heard that there are still a lot of them that have been allocated. The abandonment is so serious. Why, if you don’t record it, you will be impeached today!”

Song Qingshu's words once again made Chaozhong cold, Yang Tingshu's face turned livid and red, his fingers trembling for a long time, unable to speak, and many other people turned their heads to look at Song Qingshu with great fear, especially Qian Qianyi and some other people, in the rice war in the south of the Yangtze River a few years ago, many people piled up Song Qingshu in order to hoard, and borrowed money from Jiaduobao bank with land as collateral. Over the years, the aristocratic family has redeemed the land again, especially Qian Qianyi, who recently became a minister of the Ministry of Rites and has become more filial. He has redeemed nearly 4000 acres of land by himself. Now, the amount of land owned by each family and clan is Song Qingshu has an account book!He knows everything.

Today, these data have become a terrible thing!

Moreover, the capital fell, God knows that Song Qingshu could still get Zhang Juzheng's land and field records in the Wanli period. With the old books, even the Jiangnan gentry would not be able to make fakes. stunned.

However, if they compromised so easily, they were no longer Jiangnan gentry. This time, even Wang Duo, a cabinet scholar, couldn't sit still, and stood up with a gloomy face, and gave Song Qingshu another vicious fist.

"Jingnan Hou Guang said that others are not that strong. I am afraid that he is not that strong! From Songjiang to Suzhou, Jiaduobao's farm land is also crossing the state and the mansion. ?”

Your surname Song is a large piece of land, why do you say that I, if you make use of the problem, we will pick each other up!Wang Duo's threat is self-evident.

Unfortunately, he thought he caught Song Qingshu's sore foot, but saw Song Qingshu shrugged his shoulders like a bachelor, and clasped his fist at the emperor again.

"The minister is guilty. The minister's family does have [-] acres of land. Since last year, he suddenly purchased so many acres of land. It has not been sorted out for a while, and he has not paid it this autumn. However, it happened to clear the land. The food and salaries that the minister should pay should be handed over to the country to support Ming Dynasty. Fight to the death with Jiannu."

"By the way, next to the land of the Chen family, it seems that it is connected with Mr. Qian and Mr. Gao..."

Just kidding, what is the land in Jiangnan, not to mention Song Qingshu, Ma Shiying, Ruan Dacheng, Sun Chuanting, Fu Shan and other key members of the West India Company party's land and farms are all in Southeast Asia, and their land in the north has been lost. It was not enough for a fraction, and because of the rice war, Song Qingshu got a little more by himself. This is called barefoot who is not afraid of wearing shoes.

And the sentence seems a bit redundant, but after Song Qingshu added, Qian Qianyi and Gao Hongtu's faces turned red and green again. He Song Qingshu has more than 3 mu of land, and he is connected with him, adding a piece of about the same length There are dozens of acres of land, is it possible?Are they all earthworms?

And those who are interested have noticed that Song Qingshu didn't know when, there was a small account book in his sleeve, he obviously came prepared, Yang Tingshu's reputation was ruined by him today, his family concealed the land, and things came to light , it is estimated that he will be impeached soon, and he may have to be prosecuted. No one dares to take the risk of being exposed by Song Qingshu. Even some of them are poor scholars with few acres of land at home. Looking at the face of the boss, the entire court was completely silent under the cover of Song Qingshu.

The scene was completely suppressed by Song Qingshu alone. Seeing that no one spoke in the hall for two or three minutes, the protagonist who was kneeling on the ground, Hubu Shangshu Wang Yaozhi finally stopped pretending to be dumb, and clasped his fists dryly and began to play.

"Your Majesty, please clear the land to make up for the country!"

The fight at the bottom is fierce, but Zhu Yousong at the top has not understood it until now. The only thing he knows is that if he does not need to increase taxes for the already poor old peasants, he will not endanger his throne as the emperor, and he can make more money. Enjoying the money, Zhu Yousong waved his sleeves happily immediately.

"Let the cabinet deal with it immediately, and then pass through the world!"

This day, most of the courtiers' faces were covered with flesh pain, and they looked at Song Qingshu with a fierce look in their eyes, but walking ahead, turning their heads occasionally, Song Qingshu shook his head in distress Shake your head.

Even if you spit out this money, it will be used in the court to protect the interests of everyone. Why can't you understand these bastards?

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In Ming Dynasty, although the emperor had the highest power, the cabinet had the right to refute the imperial decree. When the matter came to the cabinet, they experienced a lot of open and secret struggles. The contending supervisors were not without objections. After all, the matter was settled. On October [-]th, the Nanming court did the first positive and beneficial thing since its establishment. The whole country measured land, starting from Jiangnan!
October [-]th, household department!
Although the number is much smaller than that of the old landlord class, the West India Company party still has a group of censors in Kedao, and compared with the loose and disorganized officials of various factions, the West India Company's officials who serve this class The officials are more capable and unified. Now, they are the sharpest scalpels in Song Qingshu's hands. For the disease-ridden Ming Dynasty, they will be the first to make the first cut!

"Big guy!"

More than [-] imperial envoys lined up in three rows like soldiers, and stood neatly in the lobby of the household department. Gu Yanwu, who served as an imperial envoy, was transferred back, and everyone held a thick account book in their arms.

After saluting neatly to Song Qingshu, and then raising their heads, all of these people's eyes were shining with fanatical brilliance.

Song Qingshu's expression was unprecedentedly solemn, and he also bowed heavily to these people.

"I call myself begging for work, first begging for myself, and then begging for everyone. Now, the mountains and rivers are broken, the wind and rain are precarious, and China is in crisis again. It's our turn to beg for the community and for Ming There is a way out!"

The voice was impassioned, and Song Qingshu bowed down excitedly.

"Thousands of generations will fight here, please!"

Also excited by Song Qingshu, dozens of imperial envoys including Gu Yanwu also bowed neatly again.

"Don't worry, Marshal, we are so heartbroken! Don't dare to resign!"

(End of this chapter)